Developments in German politics. 2

Provides an analysis of the political institutions, policy processes and party system of the Federal Republic in the years after unification. This book gives an account of the key issues on the political agenda, including economic governance, social integration and the legal order.Lire la suite...

Contents: Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Glossary of Party Abbreviations and Political Terms - Map of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Lander - Introduction - PART 1: THE INSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL SYSTEM - Government and Political Order; G-J.Glaessner - A Divided Electorate?; R.J.Dalton - The Party System at the Crossroads; G.Smith - The Territorial Dimension; C.Jeffery - The Federal Constitutional Court; K.H.Goetz - Continuity and Change in the Policy Process; R.Sturm - PART 2: GERMANY AND THE WORLD - Beyond Polarity: German Foreign Policy in a Post-Cold War; W.E.Paterson - Germany and the European Union: From Junior to Senior Role; E.J.Kirchner - Of Dragons and Snakes: Contemporary German Security Policy; A.Hyde-Price - PART 3: THE ECONOMY AND SOCIAL POLICY - The Economic Order: Still Modell Deutschland?; K.Dyson - Economic Management and the Challenge of Unification; C.Flockton - Interest Groups in the Five New Lander; S.Padgett - PART 4: CURRENT ISSUES - German Welfare and Social Citizenship; S.Mangen - Women in the New Germany; E.Kolinsky - Crime and Policing in Germany in the 1990s; P.Cullen - Model or Exception: Germany as a Normal State?; P.Pulzer - Guide to Further Reading - Bibliography - Index